Research Methods mind maps
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This GoConqr page gathers over 500 community-made Research Methods mind maps, covering questionnaires, interviews, observation and sociological theory. They support school students, university students and professional candidates studying research methods, as well as teachers looking for material. The collection spans secondary and university-level study. Pick a map and explore a method.
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- Sociology and Science31
- Sociological Theory and Research67
- Choosing a Research Method41
- Values and Ethics in Research19
- Reliability and Validity5
- Types of Research Data26
- Sampling Methods18
- Questionnaires and Surveys45
- Interviews56
- Observation and Ethnography52
- Experiments30
- Secondary Data and Content Analysis46
- Discourse and Conversation Analysis6
- Researching Education25
- Researching Crime, Deviance and Suicide17
Mind maps
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53 nodesofficial statistics what are they · Practical issues · representativeness · reliability · validity: the dark fi... · facts, constructs or ...
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13 nodesConducting a participant observation study Sociologists face two... · To do the study, the ... · Once accepted, the re... · Getting out of the gr... · Sociologists must dec...
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152 nodesEducation: Research Characteristics Researching Pupils · Settings in Edu: · Researching Teachers · Researching Classrooms · Researching Schools · Researching Parents
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85 nodesdocuments what are they? · public documents · personal documents · historical documents · assessing documents · content analysis
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23 nodesMethods in Sociology Positivists
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47 nodesTYPES OF DATA AND FACTORS AFFECTING CHOICE OF METHOD PRIMARY DATA · SECONDARY DATA · FACTORS AFFECT METHOD... · PRACTICAL ISSUES · ETHICAL ISSUES · THEORETICAL ISSUES
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25 nodesSOCIOLOGY AS A SCIENCE WHAT IS A SCIENCE? · YES, SOCIOLOGY CAN BE... · NO, SOCIOLOGY CAN'T B... · HOW SCIENTIFIC IS SCI... · CHANGING VIEWS OF SCI... · CONCLUSION
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172 nodesTypes of Methods Participant Observation · P.E.R.V.E.R.T · Documents · Questionnaires · Experiments · Structured Interviews
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35 nodesTheory and methods- Marxism Traditional Marxism · Neo- Marxism
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10 nodesDocuments The term ‘document’ r... · Scott argues that whe... · Content analysis is a...
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8 nodesStructured interviews Structured interviews... · Interviews are both p... · Structured interviews... · Structured interviews... · Critics of structured... · Structured interviews...
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15 nodesFactors influencing choice of methods Due to the vast range... · To obtain data about ... · Before choosing a met...
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14 nodesUnstructured interviews While structured inte... · Unstructured intervie... · Despite having numero...
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42 nodesSociology and Science Karl Popper · Positivism · Interpretivism · Realism · Postmodernism · Social constuction
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43 nodesApplication of Research Methods Unstructured Intervie... · Covert participant ob... · Closed questionnaires... · Official statistics t...
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29 nodesSociology and Science Scientists collect da... · Different Philosophies · is sociology scientific · sociology is more sub... · Positivists are objec... · Interpretivists are s...
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54 nodesInterviews Positivists vs Interp... · Interviewer bias · Structured/Formal Int... · Unstructured/Informal... · Response Rate · Group Interviews
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73 nodesPractical, Ethical and Theoretical Issues Practical · Ethical · Theoretical
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19 nodesobjectivity and values in society the early positivists... · karl marx - debate ov... · max weber - marx, dur... · 1. values as a guide ... · value freedom - moder...
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15 nodesDisadvantages of participant observation Practical issues · Ethical issues · Representativeness · Reliability · Bias and lack of obje... · Validity
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28 nodesMair and May Aim · Methodology · Sample · Procedure · Results · Conclusions
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13 nodesLaboratory experiments Once an experiment ha... · Practical problems · Ethical problems · The Hawthorne effect · Free will
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9 nodesThe interview as a social interaction All interviews involv... · Some researchers use ...
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24 nodescontinued committed sociology -... · this emphasis on iden... · gouldner adopts marxi... · perspective and metho... · functionalists conclu... · also link between kin...
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85 nodesSuicide Durkheim · Types of Suicide (Dur... · J.D. Douglas · Types of Suicide (J.D... · Steve Taylor: · J. Bleacher:
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33 nodesWritten Questionnaires Operationalisation Co... · Sampling Frames · Access and Response R... · Practical Issues · Anonymity and Detachment
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19 nodesResearch Design Sociologists pick a t... · Funding and cooperati... · The researcher's care... · Reviewing the field i...
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51 nodesInterpretivism. INTERPRETIVISTS · METHODOLOGIES · ANTIPOSITIVISM · Oberg (1999)
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59 nodesTheories and Methods Primary Sources · Secondary Sources
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40 nodesQuestionnaires Advantages of Questio... · Postivist View · Interpretivist View · Disadvantages of Ques...
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23 nodesPOSITIVIST METHODOLOGY INTRO · THE SCIENTIFIC MODEL · THE THEORY · SOCIAL FACTS · MAIN CHARACTERISTICS · THE METHODS
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137 nodesFactors Influencing Choice of Methods Primary & Secondary D... · MACRO: quantitative, ... · MICRO: qualitative, s... · Quantitative & Qualit... · Practical Issues · Ethical Issues
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48 nodesSociological study of Suicide Positivist · Interpretivists · Durkheim · CRITICISM! · Douglas · Durkheim founded Prot...
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62 nodesOfficial Statistics Practical Issues · Ethical Issues · Theoretical Issues · Positivists · Interpretivists · Marxism
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65 nodessociology research methods closed questions - re... · open ended questions-... · quantitative methods · qualitative methods · secondary sources of ...
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36 nodesethnomethodology it emerged in the 60s... · garfinkel is interest... · ethnomethodology atte... · indexicality and refl... · experiments in disrup... · suicide and reflexivity
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23 nodesSampling To test a hypothesis ... · Reasearch Population-... · The Sample- reasearch... · Two main sampling tec... · Random Sampling · Different types of ra...
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34 nodesFactors influencing choice of methods Practical issues · Ethical Issues · Theoretical issues
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36 nodesFactors affecting a choice of research method Ethical issues · Theoretical considera... · Reliability · Validity
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30 nodesChoosing a Research Topic Revision Types of Data · Factors influencing c...